News

• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/SYRIA - Two Christian children affected in the bombings in Aleppo Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The civilian population of Aleppo pay the highest price of the clashes that inflame the city. Over the past three days, more than 150 mortar shells have hit residential areas killing 15 people an ...
• 16 July 2013
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence against Christians in Orissa: for the Bishop "the government should act" Balasore (Agenzia Fides) - "Violence still strikes Christians in Orissa. Very often those responsible are Hindu fundamentalist groups who do not look kindly upon Christians. As a Church we are insisting with the governme ...
• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/BENIN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 8, 2013 confirmed rev. Fr. Jacques Mahougnon Agossou of the diocesan clergy of Porto Novo a ...
• 15 July 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Bishop and a deputy minister mediators in the dispute between the government and farmers Tibú (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Omar Alberto Sanchez, Bishop of Tibú in Norte de Santander, which borders Venezuela, and the deputy minister of labor, Jose Noe Rios, were charged with preparing an act of agreement in the ...
• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/CONGO - Bishops’ appeal for the end of the war in Congo: conclusion of the Assembly of SECAM Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Congo launch a strong appeal to African political leaders so that they "put an end to the war that has bloodied the Democratic Republic of Congo" and "not to work for their own i ...
• 15 July 2013
  AFRICA/KENYA - A bridge of solidarity between the Christian and Muslim communities Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The humanitarian mission of the Camillian Task Force (CTF) in Wajir, in north western Kenya has just concluded. CTF Kenya, the humanitarian agency of the Order of the Servants of the Sick (MI) l ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: sectarian militias will lead the country to ruin Harissa (Agenzia Fides) - Any non-state army should be considered "illegitimate" and will result in the return of the country to the "law of the jungle and an increase in crime, a phenomenon that unfortunately we are alr ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to life imprisonment for a blasphemous SMS Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The controversial blasphemy law continues to claim victims in Pakistan: Sajjad Masih Gill, a 28-year-old Christian, residing in the district of Pakpatan, in the province of Punjab, was sentenced ...
• 15 July 2013
  ASIA/CHINA - Urbanization, Immigration and Pastoral Care: Seminar of the local Church to respond to the social evolution Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - Urbanization and internal immigration have become the most pressing challenges for the pastoral care of the Catholic Church in mainland China. With this awareness and sensitivity, the local chur ...
• 13 July 2013
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Petition for the release of a Christian Pastor jailed for false accusations Astana (Agenzia Fides) - Immediate and unconditional release of Christian Protestant Pastor Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, imprisoned in Kazakhstan two months ago on the basis of invented accusations: This is what the internat ...
• 13 July 2013
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "National Dialogue": Bishops' appeal at the conclusion of the 100th Assembly Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - In a national context marked by deep divisions, "the Church promotes national dialogue with deep democratic spirit. We are all involved in building the good of the country. And we all have to so ...
• 13 July 2013
  AFRICA/GHANA - The Right to health care in the Constitution has to be included: the Catholic Campaign Accra (Agenzia Fides) – To include the right to health care in the new Constitution: is a national campaign launched officially by the National Catholic Secretariat, the executive body of the Episcopal Conference, on t ...
• 13 July 2013
  AMERICA/PERU - "Pain becomes holiness": the contribution of the sick and the elderly for missions Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "From Faith and silence, pain becomes Holiness": this is the title of the "National Day of the sick and elderly missionary", organized for tomorrow, Sunday, July 14, by the Pontifical Mission Soci ...
• 13 July 2013
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Conversion of children, religious education, use of the term "Allah": the Christians new challenges Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Malaysia are all interested in three issues that currently involve the political and social life, all related to religious freedom: the change of children’s religion; Islami ...
• 12 July 2013
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "We have hit rock bottom but we have to try to raise the country together", says Mgr. Emiliani after the murder of the journalist San Pedro Sula (Agenzia Fides) - "This is a message to journalists not to tell the truth, we need to look into the matter really well, because what happened is extremely painful and shows that in the Country there is a d ...